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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 120, 期 4, 页码 598-606出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.12.028
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- UCL Institute for the Physics of Living Systems
- Royal Society
- European Research Council [EP/R011818/1, 339847]
- Institut Curie
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Labex CelTisPhyBio [ANR-11-LABX0038, ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02]
- Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University
- European Research Council (ERC) [339847] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
The study reveals that the protein linkers between the cell membrane and the membrane-cortex attachments play a significant role in the mechanical properties and reshaping ability of the cell membrane. The density of membrane-cortex attachments has a nonlinear impact on the force for tube extrusion, with higher concentrations of linkers providing increased stability against coalescence for membrane tubes. Experimental findings show that overexpression of Ezrin enhances extrusion force, while Ezrin depletion has minimal effect on the force.
The cell membrane is an inhomogeneous system composed of phospholipids, sterols, carbohydrates, and proteins that can be directly attached to underlying cytoskeleton. The protein linkers between the membrane and the cytoskeleton are believed to have a profound effect on the mechanical properties of the cell membrane and its ability to reshape. Here, we investigate the role of membrane-cortex linkers on the extrusion of membrane tubes using computer simulations and experiments. In simulations, we find that the force for tube extrusion has a nonlinear dependence on the density of membrane-cortex attachments: at a range of low and intermediate linker densities, the force is not significantly influenced by the presence of the membrane-cortex attachments and resembles that of the bare membrane. For large concentrations of linkers, however, the force substantially increases compared with the bare membrane. In both cases, the linkers provided membrane tubes with increased stability against coalescence. We then pulled tubes from HEK cells using optical tweezers for varying expression levels of the membrane-cortex attachment protein Ezrin. In line with simulations, we observed that overexpression of Ezrin led to an increased extrusion force, while Ezrin depletion had a negligible effect on the force. Our results shed light on the importance of local protein rearrangements for membrane reshaping at nanoscopic scales.
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